The Sun. — London, England, 1809-12-26 00:00:00

THE BLOC,FsriIDLNG SYSTEM. We some time agn directed the attertion of the Public to a .very able pamphlet, written: by Sir Francis D'lvernois, 'on the effects of the Conti nental block de upon the commercial credit and prosperity of Great Britain. From documents of ungtieStionable aathority the author - there, qerron strated that - the Decrees of Milan and Berlin, so far from distressing our trade, as Buonaparte so fondly; . but foolish- imagined would be the result, on the co trary they added considerably to its extent and. pros 7 perity, so much so, indeed, that the expOrts of the year 1 - 808, since the blockade, exceeded those of the four preceding years, previous to the blockadej by no less a sum than. 1,g39.0361. Thus baffled were the pursuits and hopes of the. Usurper with regard to the commercial interests of Great Britain. .Let ug. now see how far they have affeEted those of Ireland. In' this statement Sir F. -D'lvernois affords us a double ;I ‘ist - a6linti, by exhibidng at once the most triutn phant proofs of the benefi,ial influence of the great measure of the Union in that country, and the traordinary increase, of its trade since Buonaparte's absurd attempt to circumscribe and annihilate it. The exportations - frOrn• Ireland, the author ob serves, in manufactures and articles of her own. growth, which in the year 1806, previous to. the Berlin Decree, amounted 'to 9,314,3541, real valu6- expel it aced a sudden rise. 1n .1307 to - to, ri0,385 = to - i 2,567,5 17 This increase of more than a third; in the short space- of two , years,' is wholly Withontexample in the-history cat commerce. The annals,• even of Bri tish commerce, do not affoid an instance of a sinai lar augmentation in the industry and labour that give . life and activity to external trade. What a singular phenomenon t. With 6 - population by two-or three mi:Tiolis less numerous than that of the United States of America, Ireland, since•:the American embargo,. not only has reached, but even . ont-stripped them in her powers and means or ex portation. The : exports of her grOWth hi 1808, est- cteded by' a fifth, 'tire exports of America in 1806, aliliough the Americans have been considered as the people of all the-world who were advancing with the mo,t relit strides in the career of productive labour and commercial wealth. This state ni things presents another phenomenon nog less singular: The, public revenue of Ireland has increased in a triple proportion since the Uoion. If we take tbe average of the three years, 1796, 1797, 1798, the nett . produce amounted- only to 1,860,7971. -while in 1808, it rose to 6,174,5611. .But perhaps it will be asked m hether the collection.of this increas ed revenue liar not exceeded the means of the people who eleven years had so much of the aspen of pi- Verty, depression, and discontent ; and when it was shrewdly conleaured that the fitst step towards its improvement, Would be to make the country sensible of the Ik3lllS it laboured under: The doubts expresr sed on this occasion might be very seasonable, if the increase in the revenue to which reference rs jnade, was. owing to. direal taxes,, from the payment of which the people could -not escape, and the triple product of which'copld only indicate a proportionate retrenchment in the comforts they enjoyed. For tunately, however, for -Ireland, ;and for the state of her revenue, the rapidity of her wealth. is wholly at tributable to the duties paid on articles of corisump and the 'following statement will abutri,!antly prove that the increase. in the comforts of the Irish people has S t cattily kept pace with the increase of their taxes. Take for example, the consumption -of 'Sugar, a commodity equally nutritive, agreeable, and whole some, the use of which is at the same time an article of necessity for the Wealthier classes,..and en article cc-mai:3lv at luxury for the poorer. offi c ial value of sugars Imported', by which is indicated, rot their deal value, but the. °relative . quantity , of the con iulaption or it :.t three tolipwing periods - - - -h . 652,520 - - 93 : ,,517 - - - • 129,3 t Now, let it be observed, that this commodity paid a duty which last ) ear produced 642,41',01; 3 and that nevertheless, Iron) a very recent period when Ireland only coosurced the half of the 447,4.04 quin tals of sugar which the now consumes, this duty has been raised frem tos. 2d., to I. g5..3d.. per quintal. —And here a comprison may be instituted not less curious than it is instructive. r • The reports from the Custom-House .ontetior to the blocKade of the Baltic, valued the importation' o f raw and -i'efitied sugars into Russia at four millions ofroubtes, which would correspond with the purchase of about Otte hunched thati;and quintals: Now with regard to France, the last offici.il ,report which we have on this subject • is that of Air. Chaptal, which goes back to.the year 1800, and which asderl'aitied - , the Consurniai• n of sugar,' which - , though double that which took plate under the DireClorial Govern mew wes titnited to 3,20 thousand quintals. /Omit ling - that Buonaparte bad succeeded only' in diniiirsltiog, by one halt .the consumption of that period, by the duties •which he doubled, quadrupled, c ,a up r e d, oees atter - the other, that he might place. that commodity beyond the reach of the French, and that be might the more etfeaually make them give up. all relish for the expensive enjoyment of theie.exotic luxuries, still it will appear, in the result, that the five millions of the inhabitants of Iran - id - now con sume themselves alone, twice a greater quantity. of sugar than the 80 millions of souls who compose tie population' of the two vast empires of the East and West. Nor should this excite so conch surprise. The following fact is, not less extraordinary than - the preceding our, and VI. hich serves indeed to explain it : Since the union between the two islands, but more e tyeeiallv since the coAlition of Europe and the United S;3tes of America against the commerce of both these islauds, the comaierce of Ireland has. been revived • to such a pitch, that in si 808, her joint exports and iinPorts have amounted to 21,437,8431. real value (.400n; 472 mlliunsof livres,) which, howeve-r, 3ncer tains for that i s land,•lately so poor and insiyinifie:eit, a tra , leas flouri-thing, and, an interchange of colornoli ties as considerable as the whole commerce pt France,, meaning,. ai ways, not Imperial France, impoverished as it MUSE be by her conque,ts; bite t he,ancietit ncLctiv Frate.T, at the most brilliant . zera of itcr commerce, v. uci* Mr. N for the first time dis played the magnificent Pict re of herresourcesand ex clAtned—"What a ;•tonderful degree of power ! hoe: many motives to silence all spirits of jealousy, and N AVA L NEW - what abrindant room (or regret that the world should ' be inundated with blood in,_order, to obtain some small degree of supetiorty,...of which there is no ne:•_l ,; .- : -TotarsmouTix 25.—Arrived the Primrose ces . sity; and which must be 'Purchased at the expense ;. of the pobl , c good to which such additinnsmio - ht 'be frigate (rain the' Eastward, and the Dapper gun ' Made:" The investigations'of that 'Minister wico pos brig from a cruize. • seswd such lights on this sUbject,.presented, 25' years, ago, an annual importation of 230 millions, and an Sailed the Pert illah,on, with a convoy to the exportation of 300—total 530 millionsollivres... The Eaatward. difference between the trade of Ireland in 180'8 and - ":that of France in 1783,- would- therefore be, that of 58. millions in favour of the latter, if, of the 300 milliong of exports,. colonial produce, which is the result_ of African labour, dicl'uot - constitute 75 Mil lions, while the whole exports of Ireland are pro duced by.,the ; labour of her own .inhabitanis. FAtmouru, DEC. 23;—Sailed the Duke of Marlborough packet, Capt. BULL, for Lisbon. MARGATE, DEC. 25.—Arrived in our Roads his Majesty's ship Dolphin ; and a gun-brig, in three days from Flushing; arrived also, an Officer 'of the Adjutant-General's Department, and another of the Quarter-Master-General's Department. •. MAILS; ARRIVED-1 11..bLn. —I Gottcnburgh, 2-Waterford. THE SU N. DEAL, DEa. 25.--The. squadron from Flushing, under Admiral OTW,IY, with a large fleet of . trans ports, are just arrived in the Downs. SoLEM QUiS DiCtRE FALsuSt AUDEAT LONDON, TUESDAN;•DECEMER 26, 1309. SunsliwEss, DEC. 22. Arrived his Majesty's ships Bellerophon, Woo4vich, and Rifleman ; also the Fiddle, a new ship, finished and launched at Flush- We are hapiiy.to have it in - out.power to announce the safe.grrival of "our trOovs from Walcheren. Ad . . . miral arwAy's squadrGll, With the transports, arrived yeitt-rdayin thePowns. ing. Sailed his Majesty's ship Rota for. Fortsrrlouth. Came into harbour his Majesty's ships Diligence and Kangaroo. • DEC. 23...—SailEd up the River Thames the Fidelle. Arrived his Majesty's ship the Edgar from Yar moat h. Sailed his Majesty'i brig Beagle with a convoy to Flushing. DEC. 25.—Sailed his. Majesty's ship Manilla to Portsmouth: .The: cessions which Sweden made to .Russia, though higlq disadvantageous, were not disgraceful to Sweden, .because there was such an ithmense .dis _proportion het wen her, strength . and thdit of her opponent. But if the-private letters lately received from Sweden, with regard to the ternis - of the treaty between France and Sweden, be cOrre6l, then is Sweden disgraced indeed, for she has - consented to place her late unfortunate Sovereign in the power of his omit inveterate enemy, BUONAPARTE. His life perhaps may be spared, but there can be no doubt that he will be exposed to every species of indignity and insult that the most rancorous malignity can suggest. The following one of the letters to which we allude LEITH, DEC. 23.—Wednesday the - Censor gun brig arrived from a crnize: Wednesday the Ardent, (34, Snake, Erebus, and Arid sloops, sailed for the Nore. • Yesterday sailed the. Forward' gun-brig; with a convoy to Heligoland. a 1 . "GOTtENBbRGII, DEc. ll.—One 'Of the stipulations i n our Treaty with France, is, that, as an equivalent for, Pome rania, whiCh is,to be restored, together with a small part of i the Prussian territory, we must send.over io,ooo men to wards the contingent of the Rhenish Confederacy. _ " The successor to our Throne, ` Prince. Christian, is ac -1 knowledgedi.and our late King, Gustavus, is d6Cned, - along with his family, to go into France. They lett Stockholm' last week for Carlscrona, from whence they will be embark ed for Pomerania on their way to France." - BELFAST, DEC. I g.'—We are extremely sorry to . stale thetrielant - trotTioss - of the-piek-et which sailed with passengers from Warrenspoint for Liverpool. on the 7th inst. It is said she had mistaken the the lights going into port, - and was dashed to pieces on the rocks. What renders the eircuMs:anc , pe culiarly distressing is,' that she 1. 4 a fifti - -three pas 'sergers on 'hoard, fnur of whom only were saved. Mr.. Coota 131,iney, late Postmaster of , Newry, is said to be one of the sufferers. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon, Capt. PUGET, of ttie RoyabNavy, arrived at the AdmirAty with dispatches from Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, con taining an account of all the line-of-tattle ships and trsnsporti having put to sea on Saturday morning hst from, Flushing.. The whole military force was with drawn that morning, and the gun-boats; with the squadron in the Rootnpot, were to sail in the evening. Sir RICHARD STRACHAN returned in the Flying Fish to see the list of the armament out. The following i, a correA statement of the French Naval Force in the Medilerranean. It wai found on hoard one of the. ships taken by Lord, Cox.oNG-__ WOOD, on the 2501 of iktObet : ' Gantheautri., Chef ue ;' [tat Major Dura:,reau. Majestic - iza guDs l'remicr Adjutant VLisiu, CaP;taine iolet. Admiral xllernande. Austerlitz - - 120 ? cart „ , Cortne. CommercedePatiS tab C a ps, .lirouard. Donawert' --- Capt.Littel.net. Ulin - - - - .74.. Danube - 74 ---- Capt.. !lend. Ili e • s t a n 74 ---' Caw ./.Allemande. •Sufliein .. 74 Capt: Louveli. • Getiois - - - 74' Capt. Montalent. Ma h nanime - 74 Capt. Ajax. - - 74 --• Capt. Petit. • - • •• Hannibal - 74 Capt. Mate. P .ne!ope - - 40 Capt.. poutourdieti. - Pomone - - 40 ---- Capt. I•tcyalnei. • • Pauline - - 40 Capt Nlontfurt. Amelia - - - 40 Capt. l‘leynerd. „ • • • Proserpine - - 4 0 ,,-- Capt. Galitheattrme, Incorruptible 40 Capt. Martin. Theinise - - 36 --- Capt. Villoti. . Via.prieuse - - 22 carronades. - Adrian r . - 46 gunS, - just liunched. La Nourie - -- . - 7 -store- - ship, goo tons. La calcine - 30 . ---•store-ship, •800-tons. Durana - 14 ----- store- 51-1 W 45 010 " These ships are ;ill .at Toulon. The 40-gun frigate carry i 3-pounders those of 36, 1.2-pounders , • • Monarch ' . 120 f.! ' Sceptre - 80 - wis \owbuilding at Toulon. The army Of MARkiItE.STA, which was at, SC. An 7 dero, wa, the remnant of that' of AsturN, left, by MANhizAß.h, when he marched to join the. Duke DEL PARQUE. It consisted altogether of ,f)e . asants, and-its disperiipn is not of much consequende, as: the men can be easily brought together again. . The most. recent accounts from Lord AYE , LLING-t TON'S army are,very saiisladory.. Thel . nuntber of sick' continued:daily 'to decrease, .and the. British force now in Portugal consists of .3 . 0,000 'fighting. . . The Capital of. Prussia isrepresented to be now in a - very. melancholy state, a gloomy skiertt.:e per vading the whole of it, and carriages are very rarely seen rolling through ,its streets. The soldiers' it. is said, are quartered on the houses -of -the citizens, be cadse the Government is unable.. to - refurnish the garrisons with the accommodations - removed or-de stroyed by the French. The private virtues of the Monatch, and:the general .Siin & plici(y ot his charac ter, secury him the esteem an : ri respe of his-people, and at a happier - period, when the pow-er, ,of France is diminished, it is probable that a resolute struggle may be made to restore the dignity of the country, but no such event can be ex'peded till -Europe and the woad shall _be. delivered from its greatest scourge. . The Amazon, which sailed on Tut9day last, from Plymouth; carried out for- the. •Patrio.s in - S l ynn 10;000 stand of arms, and. a .qu.intity ot.nall-car tridges, made in - the . cartr'idge m.+Tfufactory in the gun wharf wvrren, et. Doi:k Town. A subscription is forming in Wales for the purpose of ere6ling a Column on Aloelvammas the fi.gheU 'of the Clydean ridge, to coatmemoiate the lateJu.- b)lee. - The Princessa; ,of 74 guns, was taken from the 'Spaniards, by Lord'Roth ey, in the' memorable en gaaement- otl Cape' St: Vincent, with:Don •Langard, in Jan. 1780, when five ships or . tli line were taken, one driven' on shoi - e, another blown up. She was fitted for Admiral Drake's 'flag -ship during the remainder of the Wur in theliVest Indies, and in 1784, was 'paid offal Plymouth, and fitted for a ,beer hhlk, anti red ained as such till the 27th of November last, . when she u as b - roughtinto dock to be taken to pieces. On looking at her- bottom, 'which was not .coppered, an amazing quantity , Of oystets were. 'found, -the largest ever, seen . in. this .eonntry... • She was built in 1757, chiefly of cedar and mahogany, most of which, Considering- her age, is in high 'preservation. A very extraordinary attempt was: made a few' days ago to Carry - oil a.youug NObleman, who has found it convenient for thelrresent to take up his re sidence in the Isle It Man. - The --plan. was at ranged, ,Wirb great skill; and a vessel was prepared to'bring • off the prisoner. The-Tpersons employed On this service, however, .made an egregious blunder, and instead of seizing the young ZlN'iobienaan, they took a Gentleman who bore , strong resemblances; to him in. face and ' stature. The mi-stake -was discovered • before the Gentlenian .was carried of the Island, and of -course ,he 'was liberated. This. attempt has created great- c4),sternation in the Island,. and particbiarly arncing a. number of - persons who prefer -t residence there 'to one within the . more circum scribed limits o( a prison: Bread remains at the same price as last week. Yesterday being Christrpas Day, the same was ob served with becoming solemnity throughout, London and Westminster. • . . _ .... A canal is about to be made from Barmouth, on the Welch coast, to run by Dolgelly, Bala, Corwen, ! &c. to join the Ellesmere "Canal, and thug 'open ,a conveyance for the treasures of the new mines of Merionethshire to Liverpool and the Metropolis. It appears by an article in the German Papers, that a difference has arisen between Austria and Russia, respeaing the cession of a part of Austrian Gallicia,., containing a population of 400,000 souls, in virtue of the late Treaty. The Rnssian interpretation does not include women ; but requires them to pass as an appendage to a population 6t 400,000 males. What a savage 'country must that be in . which the fair sex is not allowed to possess any soul. The dispute will probably 'occasion . a reference to Buonaparte,- it is to be hoped have gallantry enough to decide in favour of the ladies, and of Austria. A very melancholy accident-happened On Thurs day nightoshout five o'clock, in Gites's-street;Litlr, The neighbours observing a more than usual light to come from a Mrs. Ferguson's house, they burst open, the door, when they found a woman lying on the f10 , ,r, her clothes nearly all off, and her face and up per part of her body dreadfully scoarched. - Medical assistance was imtnedic.ately procured ; but little hOpe is entertained of her recovery. ' - M. _...~_..~ JAMAICA PAPERS'. KINGSTQN, OCT. 14.-; (BRIDGETOW', BApp.- DoEs.)-7Ttle inhabitants of Trinidad, impatient un der the, Oppression of arbitrary, laws, we find, are stilt actively engaged in temperate and well concerted measures td obtain the blesspa of the British Con stitution for that country, and for this purpose, at a legal meeting, they entered into the folloWiiig res 6; lotions t.' That this Meeting, uninfluenced by any party mo- , tives whatever, has rya other objeCt than to, procure to the Inhabitants of this Cblony what 'is petitioned for by the fol lowing Address to his Majesty :-- " 70 THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. d , We, your Majesty's loyal subjeds of the Island of 'rd. nidad, most humbly beseech your Majesty, to extend to the inhabitants of this islAld, without national or religious dis- tindions, and without legal JetrospeCtion, the British Con stitution, as established in the other, ,British Colonies of the West Indies; "•2.• That the prayer of the above Address, and all subse quent ,proceFclings, can only be considered the voice of the Colony, inasmuch as the inhabitants shall .be allowed to.par. ticipate, without national or religious distinolions, in all the rights and prtVileges of the British Constitution." The other Resolutions are for appointing a . Coin.' rnittee and raising a Subscription. •, GERMAN PAPERS. BAYONNB, NOV. 26. Marshal Ney, Dake of Elchingen, who is eXpeeled in a short time to pass through here on his way to Spain, is to take upon himself again the command of the 6th Corps of the Army ,of Spain: large bodies of troops, and many supplies, were passing through daily to the Pyrenees. . •- • WARSAW, N9V.'27.—The Polish Officers from Russian Poland who po - Stess property, and have not . returned to their estates, are threateued with ,confis cation ,of their goods ; but it is hoped that it will not be carried into etteal, and that a general pardon will be granted. Since ,the conclusion of peace, the command - of the Polish army has been given by his Majesty, to ow Duke, while it remains tinier the immediate, 'orders 'of Napoleon. TRA6BiTiIG, NOV; 27.—T0-day at six o'clock two carriages with Officers of the household of his Ma jesty the King of Wurtemburg, went through our city.' His Majesty had preceded them in a coach drawn by eight horses, ,with two othets,of six and four horses each. BRIGHTON, DEC. 24. Yesterday the infant danaliter of General -and I,ady,JANE HOUsTOWN was baptized at their mansion on' the West Cliff ; his Royal Highness the Prince': of - - WALES doing them the 'very great. honour 0 1 standing as one of the sponsors in person. The ce remony ot: the soleninity of .the baptism being over, the PRINCE and a large circle of gens de condition, took dinner with the General - and his Lady, who, after the removal of the table-cloth, -together with the whole of the distinguished dinner party, attend his Royal Highness to the Pavilion, 'Where others of. Nobility were waiting to receive them. The com pany now in number amounted to nearly one. him dred,'arnoog whom were Lord and Lady DARN,EY, Lord and Lad) C. SOMERSET, L,rd HEATHFIELD, Mrs. FITiHERBERT, Lady LAKE and daughter, Ge neral TURNER, and the first Ailitary characters in the distrid, and theic,t,,a-1.0—,-,*.x , `"apartments, the north wing or conservatory only cepted, on this occasion was most natal, and: heeffea which such a well 114IarCI . of light'had beyond the exterior of theeuiflce, highly grotitying tb behold. Music constituted the print atuusement-of Atte evening, to which, ho•x mr, the evening was too bleak and - damp for the wonted number' of 'listeners to he. found on the Steyiie. The Cont'erf was not finally concluded til better ,than one hour after midnight;' and some timer-Lipsed .sup , equtnily ere the company began generally le retire. ' Hip Royal Highness, about nine o'clock in - the pa tire rota hence , Carlton MOrning,•tobk his de rt f f House. Various Nobler - nen 'and Gentlemen also left as - about the same time. As a proof that it is not the present intention of the' PRINCE to revisit this place during the winter season, the whole of the Pavilion establishment have orders to remove to London with all convenient expedition. The whole of them, consequently; excepting those servants to . Whorn the care of the premiSes are entrusted, will have left us before the end of the ensuing week. • ' If is en( t rstood here, that the PlliNce - will take dinner to-morrow with his MAJESTY at Windsor: • We had a sliOit fall of snow this morning, sinde which the weathei has beets damp, hazy, and excess. • sively cold ind . utipleasant but few of our. frshion ables, therefore, have ventured to stir from the more genial influence of theit own comfortiable and so! tiable firesides. PASSING BASE COlN.—Notwithstanding the great number of offenders of this description,. who ,have betn lately committed to Warwick and Stafford !nee women were apprehended last week, viz. Mary 'Herring, taken ,at Stournridge, Hannah Smiih, at ,Bilslon, and Sarah.D.avis;alias Bevan, 'at Walsal, all of •whom have been committed fur the abOire . offence. 'As the crime ot'paSsing ba s e coin •has increased to an enormous extent, we think it , necessary to remark, that it is:the common Wake of these people to go early into the markets, and to purchase ; articles at any price demanded, with Pad seven-shilling piecvs, &c. for which-they get change, and thus an . additional evil is produced by raising the inarket to exorbitant prices. . ‘The:JOilowing is an Extra& of a Letter frortt one of the first Commercial Houses in America,;--- The disniissiOn of Mr. JAOE,ONi consent ,aod, even without any prtvious communica tion with his G o vernment, is a most insulting out rage upon the *authority, as sell as. the dignity of the- Mpoarch whose conuniSsion he bears; '4 . nd giievou,sV, shall .We mistaken, it ample. atonement be. not demanded and unforced., We wt 1 venture eb predict, that the next Embargo wilt nut. -be in Ameripa—it is now our turn. . ‘,‘TAll th accounts froM . New York, of which some are as, late as the 19111 ult. concur in stating,' that Mr: JACKSON was proceeding to that city;\ whence,' it is expeiled, he would forthwith sail for - England. This intefligence.had.a great effect upon the comniercial part of the community. Expresses were, flying in all directions throughout the Union , ; British mannfactures had actually advanced i 5 or W. per cent. and this tno upon goods which belo;e_ were alcuot unialeable:!,